# James Mather Shipmaster (1811–1856)

Tayport Auld Kirk Cemetery, Tayport, Fife, Scotland. Stone 1732.

Page: https://kirkyards.scot/tayport-auld-kirk-cemetery/1732

## Face 1

```text
1831
ERECTED
BY
JAMES MATHER, SHIPMASTER
IN MEMORY OF HIS OLDEST SON
JAMES
WHO DIED 12TH JAN 1831
AGED 11 YEARS
ALSO HIS FATHER
JAMES MATHER
DIED 4TH JUNE [1811?] AGED 72 YEARS
ALSO
HIS SON ARCHIBALD
WHO WAS DROWNED AT HANBURGH
[?] 1850 AGED [26?] YEARS.
[?]
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002479-side1.JPG)

## Face 1

```text
IN MEMORY OF
THOMAS MATHER, SHIPMASTER
WHO WAS DROWNED IN THE RIVER GALLEGOS
SOUTH AMERICA 23RD OCT 1850 AGED 28 YEARS
AND OF HIS DAUGHTER JESSIE
WHO DIED 5TH JAN 1851 AGED 3 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS
ALEXANDER MATHER
SHIPMASTER
SON OF JAMES MATHER JUNR
WHO DIED 23RD NOV [?]
AGED 30 YEARS
ALSO CHRISTINA MELVILLE
SPOUSE OF JAMES MATHER [SENR?]
WHO DIED 13TH JAN 1856 AGED 88 YEARS
```

![Photograph](https://storage.googleapis.com/kirkyards-photos/scotland/fife/tayport/auld_kirk_cemetery/monument/image/S7002479-side2.JPG)

Square brackets mark uncertain readings. The title is guessed from the inscription.

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